Sue Monk Kidd
Sue Monk Kidd
Sue Monk Kiddis a writer from the Southern United States, best known for her novel, The Secret Life of Bees...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth12 August 1948
CountryUnited States of America
perfection people clarity
The translucence that comes when life hardens into a bead of such cruel perfection you see it with the purest clarity. Everything suddenly there--life as it truly is, enormous, appalling, devastating. You see the great sinkholes it makes in people and the harrowing lengths to which love will go to fill them.
giving-up force consolation
How could I choose someone who would force me to give up my own small reach for meaning? I chose myself, and without consolation.
soul attention levels
I realize that I can be with someone, but on a deeper level I'm not available to them at all. I have attention deficit disorder of the soul.
writing trying want
A lot of time you write out of some unconscious place. I try to trust what is coming and where it wants to take me.
prayer accepting release
To be fully human, fully myself, To accept all that I am, all that you envision, This is my prayer. Walk with me out to the rim of life, Beyond security. Take me to the exquisite edge of courage And release me to become.
growth construction process
Our earlier lives aren't wrong, they are just pre-construction. Our lives are meant to unfold, to evolve, and that's good. The only wrong thing, perhaps, is permanently hesitating on the verge of courage, which would prevent this process from taking place.
denied
The time to assert one's right is when it's denied!
spiritual creativity soul
For me, creativity is essentially a spiritual experience, a conversation between my soul and me.
heart world depends
The world depends upon the small beating in your heart.
pain honesty joy
Journal became a sanctuary where I could pour out in honesty my pain and joy. It recorded my footsteps and helped me understand where I was standing, where I had been, and even where God pointed.
cousin brother school
Where do you come from?"...This is the number one most-asked question in all of South Carolina. We want to know if you are one of us, if your cousin knows our cousin, if your little sister went to school with our big brother, if you go to the same Baptist church as our ex-boss. We are looking for ways our stories fit together.
matter
After you get stung, you can't get unstung no matter how much you whine about it.
world matter spinning
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
support companionship social
Honeybees depend not only on physical contact with the colony, but also require it's social companionship and support. Isolate a honeybee from her sisters and she will soon die.